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| Obama grants clemency to 231 convicts in one-day record |
| 2016-12-19 |
| [The Hill] President Obama on Monday granted clemency to 231 federal inmates, the most in a single day by any president in U.S. history. Obama commuted the prison sentences of 153 people and pardoned 78 others, a sign he is ramping up his use of clemency power during his final weeks in office. The president has frequently doled out commutations as his final months in office wane. But he has seldom handed out pardons, which formally forgive prisoners for their crimes and restore certain rights. Commutations simply cut short their sentences. With Monday’s grants, Obama has more than doubled the number of people he has pardoned as president, according to the White House, a number that now stands at 148. He has now commuted the sentences of 1,176 people, including 395 serving life sentences. "Today’s acts of clemency -- and the mercy he has shown his 1,324 clemency recipients -- exemplify his belief that America is a nation of second chances," White House counsel Neil Eggleston wrote in a blog post. The announcement was made during the president's holiday vacation in Hawaii. The grants come as Obama faces pressure from criminal-justice reform advocates to pick up the pace before he leaves office on Jan. 20. They fear that President-elect Donald Trump, who campaigned as a law-and-order candidate, will scale back or eliminate the use of clemency for large groups of federal inmates. Eggleston said the president will make more clemency grants before he leaves office. Obama has granted clemency more times than any U.S. president, part of his effort to free inmates serving lengthy sentences handed down during the government's War on Drugs. A bipartisan push in Congress to overhaul the nation’s sentencing laws sputtered during Obama’s second term. Thus he has relied on his clemency initiative, which began in 2014, to accomplish his goal of shortening sentences he and others view as draconian. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 most of these will stay in prison for at least 5 more years - some are probably sick and will die either while still in prison or soon thereafter some will be murdered by friends of people they think ratted them out while in prison some of them will, at the time of their release be too old to go back to narcotic distro perhaps a few of them will go back to criminal activities the whole thing is pretty awful - the crimes, the criminals incarcerated, the criminals still on the street, the past victims, future victims |
| Posted by: lord garth 2016-12-19 22:19 |
| #6 Read the first few and they were distributers of cocaine, crack and meth. Tells you all you need to know about this ghetto president. |
| Posted by: Clomogum Lumplump7756 2016-12-19 20:34 |
| #5 FULL LIST: Names of offenders granted commutation Monday by Obama |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2016-12-19 19:59 |
| #4 Waiting for Mumia here. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2016-12-19 19:24 |
| #3 And so the death count of others will begin. Hope someone is also tabulating the body count rung up by illegals while they're at it. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-12-19 18:30 |
| #2 Didn't Saddam H. do something similar when he saw the writing on the wall? |
| Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-12-19 16:48 |
| #1 "Today’s acts of clemency -- and the mercy he has shown his 1,324 clemency recipients -- exemplify his belief that America is a nation of second chances," Easy bet - 1/2 these guys will be back in jail within the year - is that a 'second chance'? |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-12-19 16:31 |